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and discharging despatch and to harmonize its movement of steamers so that the 

 maximum efficiency of operation could be accomplished without serious prejudice to 

 any shipper or planter. This higher rate of dispatch in handling cargoes, however, 

 reflected beneficially to the shipper in making possible a lower scale of freight rates 

 than otherwise would have been the case. The duties devolving upon the Producers' 

 Committees became likewise complicated by reason of the multitudinous interests 

 which they represented. 



The difficulties which were encountered by the Producers' Committees, however, 

 were very largely overcome through the admirable system inaugurated by the Cuban 

 Producers' Committee, by which authorizations were secured from all planters and 

 shippers in such a way that, in so far as possible, several interests could be centered 

 under one authorization, thereby eliminating to a very appreciable degree the multi- 

 plicity of individual interests with which the Cuban Producers' Committee would 

 otherwise have been obliged to deal. The division in allotment of steamer space 

 under this system became a simple problem of mathematics, and by issuing to each 

 shipper his proportionate amount of the available tonnage for each month, the plan 

 as above outlined has proven highly satisfactory to all interests. 



It may be added in closing that the three committees of which this article has 

 spoken rounded out the circle of the organization which was required in order to per- 

 fect the machinery for handling the distribution and transportation factors of the 

 situation, which they represented, but it was the close co-operation established sev- 

 erally and collectively between the three above-mentioned committees and the Inter- 

 national Sugar Committee and the American Refiners Committee which rendered 

 possible the successful management of the movement of the West Indies crop for 

 1917-18. Service was the essential needed to attain this achievement, and that such 

 service has been available is entirely due to the spirit of inter-committee co-operation 

 and harmony, which has been maintained at so high a standard throughout the 

 entire season. 



Dominican republic They propose to erect a mill at "Monte 



A new sugar plantation has recently Llan0 " with a dail y Siding capacity of 



been started, known as "La Empresa from 1 ' 000 to 1 ' 500 tons of cane " U is 



Monte Llano." It consists of about 6,000 estlmated that the new P lan t will cost in 



acres of land at the "port of Bergantin," the neighborhood of $1,200,000. 



6 miles east of Puerto Plata. There are A representative of the firm expects to 



already 1,000 acres in cane, and by the leave for New York ear ^ in Ma y to P ur " 



end of the year the owners expect to chase the miU and other supplies, 



have another 1,500 acres under cultiva- 



tion. UTAH SUGAR SUPPLY 



The Monte Llano plantation is owned Utah will produce this year sufficient 



by Bentz Bros., who are also proprietors sugar beets to fulfill the wants of its half 



of the "Ingenio Amistad," at Perez, 12 million population and then have enough 



miles south of Puerto Plata, on the Do- t o furnish an American army of 2,000,000 



minican Central Railroad. men with sugar for one year. 



The "Ingenio Amistad" has heretofore This was the statement of J. J. Jones, 



been the largest sugar plantation in the sugar beet specialist of the United States 



northern half of the Dominican Republic. Department of Agriculture for the inter- 



The sugar produced at the "Ingenio Am- mountain district, at the convention of 



istad" has been sold locally, but it is the county farm agents in this city. 



intention of Messrs. Bentz Bros, to export It is estimated that Utah's production 



the output of their "Monte Llano" planta- for 1918 will reach 1,000,000 tons of 



tion. sugar beets. 



